Tag: #International womens day

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), and while I’m a feminist and not at all afraid to say so, this is no feminist rant….in fact, it’s quite the opposite. In 2005, I was living and working in Ukraine during IWD. I’d never celebrated it, talked about it, or even recognized it with other women. As…

Today is International Women’s Day….. It’s time to celebrate women. Women everywhere. Women we personally know, and those we’ve never met in life. We’re celebrating women, young and old, of every color, nationality and religion, around the world in every country. We are celebrating women who strive to make a difference every single day. Below we have explained…

In 2004, I ventured into Ukraine as a naive American who viewed the country as just another great adventurous year to be had by myself. I didn’t take the time to learn much about Ukrainian culture, the languages of Ukrainian and Russian, or anything about the history of this amazing nation. Wow was I in…